The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-15
OUR PROSPERITY LETTER.

On Monday last. there were l2O bales
of cotton sold here. Market 81.
Some of the young people Of our town
have taken the preliminary measures fol-
charade and tableaux, on Friday nigh
before Christmas.
Mr. D. N. Langford and Miss Haiti
Boulware, were married on Thursday
December sth. The happy couple have
our best wishes for their future pros
perity.
The number OF bales OF cotton sold
here for the week ending December l3tE
is 37S, same as last week. Tota numbc,
to date 6,74s. Price to-day 8.
The stores and streets now present
scenes of unusual life and activity.
Clerks and everybody else are just as
busy as they can be, aud purchasers are
waited on in their turns, and all so
away happy and serene.
II. O. Williams State Secretary for the
Y. N. C.. A., will not be in Prosperity
o. the 18th and 18th as advertised, but
will be here on Friday the 18th. Every
body is cordially invited. The public,
those, who attend will receive treat.
The Y. NJ. G. A., IN our town is in a
very flourshing condition.
Oh what good seasonablc times in the
country now. Puddings, sausage, spare
ribs, back-bones and hog's-head cheese.
Who wouldn't live in the country now !?
Blessed be the woman, 1--WE know it was
woman) who invented puddings and
saasages.
We have some very gallant young
men in town. They are noted for pay
ing marked attention, especially to
strange young ladies visiting here.
Sometimes in their eagerness 10 extend
courtesies and little favors, they al
low their zeal to take advantage OF their
judgment. We have case in point.
To be frank, on recent Sunday even
ing young gentlemen wrote a note to
young lady asking the 'exqnisite
pleasure" OF seeing her to ''church and
return" That young lady had the ten
quisite pleasure" OF being-married. To
have been rise, would have been to
have enquired. The code duello is in
order.
Mr.. Graydon, Of Abbeville, says sit
would be we'll for the State ifall the bat
tle-Scarred veterans of the Confederacy
were dead" We quote from the Char
lesion Nens and Courier of the 18th.
We do not believe that the two meanest
men in. the United States, torch-!ight
VIM. Tecumseh Sherman, and paralytic
Fairchild, would agree to this senti-
ment of Graydon. We feel satisfied that
they would not. Graydon ran against
Judge Norton for the ;udgeship, and
was defeated. Judge Norton is chat
tle-scarred veteran" Of the Confederacy,
and We reckonGraydou's defeat by one
armed Confederate has embittered him
against every, ''battle-scarred veteran,"
to the extent that, he, Graydon, thinks
it would be well for the State il they
were all dead. Pass him around among
the wives, the daughters, the sisters and
mothers OF them old veterans OF '61-'6j.
On last Saturday morning about
5 O'Clock, when Mr.. Walter Wise went
to his lot to feed his stock lie discovered
his barn on fire. The barn contained
fodder, straw, pea vines, &C., which were
rapidly enveloped in flames. The stables
were attached to the barn and it was
with difficulty that Mr.. Wise saved his
stock. The fire was, without doubt, the
work Of an incendiary, and is in the
section of country where many depre-
dations such as rocking houses, cutting
harness, burning gin houses, shooting
horses, and shooting at men, have been
committed in the dark hours OF night.
1t does seem that the time has come for
the people in that community to arise
in their might, and say that these
things must be stopped-that there must
be an end to this midnight deviltry.
Mr.. Wise is an exceedingly quiet, in
offensive citizen, who has now lost his
barn and stables to satisfy some demoniac
desire Of party or parties. There must
be stop put to this thing. The COM
munity is never safe under the existing
state OF affairs, and some body must be
held responsible for these fragrant
crimes.
YUBE.